The Volcano

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Summary: A young couple has been separated for many months as the husband has been working far from home. Now, he’s coming home. Each unsure of the other’s faithfulness during their long time apart, husband and wife are painfully aware that there’s something really important that they had better talk about. All the while, the volcano of desire is rumbling away….

Sample topics for discussion:

1) In what ways do the messages of this film also apply to any two people who are about to become intimately involved with one another?

2) Rewrite the story: Imagine that the husband or the wife comes up with a clever, creative way to talk about getting retested for HIV.

Directed by Hamet Fall Diagne, Senegal

• Based on original ideas by Miss Liboke Limpho, age 22, Lesotho, Miss Egbeleye Azeezat, age 23, Nigeria, and Mr. Ntamba Alon Johnas, age 18, Tanzania.
• Length: 8 minutes 38 seconds
• Production date: 2007
• Shot in Senegal
• Currently available in: Dioula, English, Fon, French, Hausa, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Kiswahili, Lingala, Mina, Mooré, Portuguese, Pulaar, Twi, Wolof, and Yoruba.

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